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SUMMARY:Dongeun Lee (Erlangen): Collocation Patterns of German Preposi
 tions vor and hinter with Body Part Nouns
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 akers and project team members\, Poster Presenters will present their 
 work on methodology and applications of concordance analysis! &nbsp\; 
 Dongeun Lee (Erlangen): »Collocation Patterns of German Prepositions 
 vor and hinter with Body Part Nouns« Abstract: This study investigate
 s the internal and external collocation patterns of prepositions and t
 heir interplay with semantic extensions grounded in underlying semanti
 c concepts. As a case study within a broader research project\, it foc
 uses on two antonymic German prepositions – vor(in front of) and hin
 ter(behind) – when combined with body part nouns (BPNs) as complemen
 ts. Previous research on prepositions has often isolated form from mea
 ning. Cognitive linguistic studies on prepositional semantics emphasiz
 e polysemy\, where core spatial meanings extend into abstract domains 
 through conceptual metaphors\, primarily focusing on abstract spatial 
 schemas (Langacker 1987\; Lakoff 1987\; Herskovits 1986\; Brugmann 198
 8\; Boers 1996\; Tyler&Evans 2003\;Coventry&Garrod 2004\; Radden&Dirve
 n 2007\; Lindstromberg 2010\; Brenda 2014). However\, these approaches
  often overlook prepositions’ syntagmatic integration into prepositi
 onal phrases (PPs). Quantitative corpus-based studies\, such as Kiss (
 2007\; 2011)\, Blanco (2018)\, and Steyer (2019)\, rely on top-down ap
 proaches that predefine fixed syntactic patterns (i.e.\, preposition +
  bare noun combinations)\, which restrict their scope and eventually e
 ntail inherent limitations in capturing the full range of prepositiona
 l usage across different syntactic and semantic contexts. Two key ques
 tions guide this research: (1) What collocational asymmetries exist be
 tween vor and hinter with BPNs\, and do these reflect their antonymic 
 semantic relationship? (2) How do external lexical environments\, (col
 loprofiles of PPs) correlate with prepositions’ metaphorical extensi
 ons? Using data from the DWDS-Kernkorpus (121 million tokens\,
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